Location: Broughton near Chester End client: A European consortium producing the Airbus family of passenger aircraft, a corporate jet, the beluga supertransport and a military transport Project: Design to Cost operation on A350 Pay rate: £36 Ltd p/h Start date: 1st September 2016 Duration: 4 months initailly with scope for extension in 2017 Business travel: Up to 1 travel per week in the UK and average 1 per month in Europe THE CANDIDATE Minimum of 3 years in Design to Cost or Project management or Engineering or Manufacturing or Costing or Procurement environement Holder of Engineer/ Aeronautical Engineering degree or equivalent ESSENTIAL TECHNICAL SKILLS/ EXPERIENCE: - Design to Cost - Improvement product/process methodology - Knowledge on A/C design and development - Product and process development - Finance costing awareness - Cost analysis, Cost management, Costing, Purchasing,Finance Controling - Business case creation and studies - Creativity inovation techniques - Improvement methodologies lean - 6sigma - others... - Project Management and monitoring DESIRABLE not essential - Language skills in English and French/German/Spanish - Automotive other industrial or transportation branches - Airbus experience on A/C A350 development THE ROLE - Following up of existing project to ensure completion and delivery against planning - Performing DtC operations - Facilitating collaborative multi - functional work sessions Brainstorming, Value Engineering and creativity methods to identify potential RC savings areas and to increase cost opportunities portfolio. - Providing Engineering with Cost Awareness studies - Performing trans - PDTs and trans - Programs cross - fertilization - Analysing cost impact, cost drivers, assessing alternatives, preparing multi - criteria decision dossier and trans - PDTs consolidation. - Ensuring traceability on studies and correct database fulfilment - Recurring Cost RC report update - Apply rigourous project management approach to every single topic